Beginnings

We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and up-and-coming comedians, musicians, writers and artists about their earliest creative acts and about other formative childhood experiences.

On today's episode, I talk to the creators of the new HBO show
AnimalsPhil
Matarese and Mike
Luciano. Phil and Mike are from New Jersey and Long Island
respectively, and while working at an advertising agency together,
the two created the webseries Animals, which was then
shown at Channel 101 and garnered the "Best...

On today's episode, I talk to Tony-nominated actor Geneva Carr. Geneva is a film,
theater and television actor originally from Jackson,
Mississippi. After studying French at Mount Holyoke, she moved to
Paris and began a career in the world of business. Banking proved
to be a lackluster life though, and a chance...

On today's episode, I talk to comedian and writer Streeter Seidell. Streeter
first gained popularity as part of the cast of CollegeHumor's
online videos, including the viral series Prank Wars.
This led to an MTV series with his fellow CollegeHumor colleague
Amir Blumenfeld called Pranked. In 2013, Streeter wrote
for the...

On today's episode, I talk to filmmaker Alex Ross
Perry. Alex was raised in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and attended
NYU, where he graduated from their film program. In 2009, he made
his first feature film Imipolex on a shoestring budget,
and since then, he's made three other films: The Color
Wheel in 2011, Listen Up...

About the Podcast

We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and on-their-way-up comedians, musicians, writers, artists and thinkers about their earliest creative acts, their formative childhood experiences, and how they've developed both creatively and emotionally over the years. Beginnings is part therapy, part philosophy and almost all fascinating (95% according to FDA studies).